Counting Rod Numerals

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Short description: Unicode character block
Counting Rod Numerals
RangeU+1D360..U+1D37F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsCounting Rod numbers
Assigned25 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.018 (+18)
11.025 (+7)
Note: [1][2]

Counting Rod Numerals is a Unicode block containing traditional Chinese counting rod symbols, which mathematicians used for calculation in ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Counting Rod Numerals block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/04-156R2 Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), UTC #99 Minutes 
L2/16-046 Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2016-01-27), Proposal to encode five ideographic tally marks 
L2/16-004 Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes 
U+1D377..1D378 2 L2/15-328 Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2015-11-30), Proposal to encode tally marks 
L2/16-065 Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2016-03-14), Proposal to encode two Western-style tally marks 
L2/16-156 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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